Creature - 2D Procedural Bone + Mesh Animation Tool with HTML5/WebGL Support released!

[kestrelm]

Hello Devs,

I am the developer of Creature. Today I am pleased to announce the Windows version of the Creature Automated 2D Skeletal + Mesh Animation Tool.

 

Website:

http://creature.kestrelmoon.com

 

What can Creature do? 

 

Please have a look at the trailer here:

 

Phaser WebGL Demos

Next check out this live WebGL demo of a character authored in Creature and exported onto the web:

 

http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/demo_raptor.html

 

Another Phaser Demo with Sprite Swapping:

 

http://www.kestrelmoon.com/creature/demo_ice_demon.html

 

 

 

Here are some dinosaurs authored in Creature and running in a game engine:

 

 

 

Automated Walk Cycles + Secondary Motion(Cloth, Hair, Flesh effects)

 

Animating Walk Cycles and complex secondary motion is easy with Creature's Procedural Motor system. Making a walking character is as simple

as dropping in a set of Walking Motors into the limbs and tweaking the motor parameters:

 

https://youtu.be/LXS6SnGTUos

 

Want to make a flying bird with a dynamic tail? Drop in some flap motors and bend physics into the skeleton and watch it go:

 

https://youtu.be/1oQu2BBAZzY

 

Easily animate front facing characters with breathing motions using motors as well:

 

https://youtu.be/oBRD2MRcjpY

 

 

Advanced Sprite Swapping with Procedural + Physics Motors

 

In addition to bone and mesh animation, Creature also allows you to swap in traditional custom drawn

sprite frames in an advanced way.

 

Swapped in sprite frames actually deform and react with the rest of the procedural system, allowing you to

produce some rather sophisticated effects:

 

https://youtu.be/5mZ37lBFHJA

 

 

 

High End VFX Features in a 2D Animation Package

 

Creature brings high end VFX features into the world of 2D animation. 

With Creature you can do Soft Body Dynamics for squishy characters,

Path Authoring + Transfer and even Motion Capture from a video file.

 

 

Game Engine and Export Format(s) Support

 

Creature supports most of the major game engines. (Unreal Engine, Cocos2dx, Unity, MonoGame, LibGDX, PixiJS, Phaser, ThreeJS, BabylonJS).

It also supports export to individual image frames, spritesheets, animated GIF and Autodesk FBX (for bone motors)

 

Full game engine support is written here:

http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/more_info_3.html

 

 

Full Documentation

 

A good tool requires well written documentation. All functions and features of the Creature animation tool

are documented here:

http://www.kestrelmoon.com/creaturedocs/Tutorials_And_Walkthroughs/Quickstart.html

 

In addition to writeups, video tutorials of most major topics are also provided:

http://www.kestrelmoon.com/creaturedocs/Tutorials_And_Walkthroughs/Video_Tutorials.html

 

Game Engine Runtime documentation is here:

http://www.kestrelmoon.com/creaturedocs/Game_Engine_Runtimes_And_Integration/Runtimes_Introduction.html

 

Thank you for reading this post and let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers!

 

 

[kestrelm]

Hello all,

 

A lot of features and enhancements have been made for Creature recently.

 

You can now pose a chain of bones directly using your Pen/Stylus:

 

A new specialised motor called the Leg motor designed to handle complicated walk cycles, running, gait etc. has also been added.

Here is a demo running live in Phaser showing you the new capabilities of this motor:

 

 

Phaser WebGL link:

http://www.kestrelmoon.com/creature/demo_cat.html

 

Youtube Video link:

 

Cheers!

[jdnichollsc]

Wowww, very nicee! 

 

Enter in my group please: https://www.facebook.com/groups/javascriptgames/

 

Regards, Nicholls   

[kestrelm]

Wowww, very nicee! 

 

Enter in my group please: https://www.facebook.com/groups/javascriptgames/

 

Regards, Nicholls   

 

 

Thanks!

Sure thing! But let me polish up a couple more things first, I will be adding a a few new exciting features very soon, stay tuned!